Videos tagged with Teamwork

Summary This presentation has three interwoven parts: an exploration of lean development principles, "as-a-service" deployment models, and the ways in which Spring and SpringSource technologies support this style of development. Numerous demos illustrate the solutions to the issues raised in the discussion. Bio Adrian Colyer is the CTO for SpringSource. He provides direction and oversees develo...

Summary Knowing how to get things done with others may be the single greatest lever for success in your career. In this session you will be introduced to the unique and proven Responsibility Redefined™ framework for understanding how personal and shared responsibility work in the mind. You will try it on for yourself and see if it explains how your mind works. You will also learn how to a...

Summary In this talk filmed during Agile 2008, Jim McCarthy talks about 11 commitments team members should adhere to if they want to achieve a state of shared vision. Such a state empowers a team to reach their full potential and ultimately attain greatness. Bio Jim lead software development teams at Bell Labs, The Whitewater Group, and Microsoft. Since 1996, Jim has devoted himself to research...

Summary In this interview made by Deborah Hartmann of InfoQ, Jean Tabaka talks about team collaboration as a key ingredient of the Agile development, but she also mentions RAPID management as a solution for the product owners who found themselves in an Agile environment. Bio Jean Tabaka is an Agile Coach with Rally Software Development in Boulder Colorado. Jean is a Certified Scrum Master and P...

Summary In this presentation made during QCon 2007, Dave Thomas talks about expanding people's expertise in their domains of interest by not treating them uniformly as they had the same amount of knowledge and level of experience. Bio Dave Thomas is a programmer, author, and publisher. With Andy Hunt he runs The Pragmatic Programmers, a consultancy which specializes in improving the lot of deve...

Summary At Agile2007 we heard the tale of a distributed Scrum project with 50 people in 4 continents. BMC Identity Management decided to build their next generation product, including architectural changes and component integration, using Scrum to handle the uncertainty of their product's requirements. Bio Guy Pshigoda is an Agile Coach & PM for BMC Software, implementating Scrum at locatio...

Summary In this InfoQ interview, author and coach Linda Rising reflected on scientific research suggesting that we may be hardwired to work in small, collaborative teams. She also explained what led up to her popular Agile2006 talk "Are Agilists the Bonobos of the Software World?" which focused on their "make love not war" social rituals. The apes' rituals, that is. Bio Lind...

Summary Teams moving to an Agile approach may feel irritated as they move from command-and-control to a collaborative culture - which can start to look like non-stop meetings, starting first thing every Monday morning. In this InfoQ exclusive presentation, recorded at Agile2007, Agile coach Jean Tabaka shared her experiences working with teams, offering guidance on how to alleviate meeting burn...

Summary In this 90-minute talk from the Agile2007 conference, Lean software thought leader Mary Poppendieck reviewed 20th century management theories, including Toyota and Deming, and went on to talk about "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, planning and standards. She closed by addressing the role of measurement: "cash flow thinking" over "balance sheet thi...

Summary Joseph Pelrine was present when XP took its first steps, was Europe's first Certified Scrum Trainer, and today is still breaking new ground. In this 2007 InfoQ interview, Joseph talked about Network Analysis and how Social Complexity Science informs his work with teams; the usefulness of the Dilbert archetype; & a speed-dating technique to help teams get started (creating software, ...